Exercise sheets will be published regularly on this website, usually on Thursday night. Some exercise sheets will be marked as graded sheets, and the others will be marked as not graded.

When a graded exercise sheet appears, the students will have two weeks time to solve the exercises, write the solutions and hand them in, by Wednesday at 2pm. The grades of every exercise sheet will be written on MÜSLI by the tutors. To be admitted to the final exam, students need to obtain at least 50% of the available points of the graded sheets.

The exercises of the non-graded sheets will be used during the final exam, the first question of every exam will be taken from there.

During the last two weeks of the course we will organize oral exams for the students who obtained at least 50% of the points in the graded exercise sheets. To attend the exam, it will be necessary to register on MÜSLI. We will communicate the date of the final exam as soon as possible. The oral exam will be half an hour long for every student, and the first question of every exam will be an exercise from the non-graded exercise sheets. The final exam will be in English.

In this lecture course we will discuss symmetric and locally symmetric spaces. Symmetric spaces are Riemannian manifolds in which the geodesic symmetry, at any point, is induced by an isometry. In particular the group of isometries acts transitively on the space. We will study the Riemannian geometry of symmetric spaces as well as their connection to the theory of semisimple Lie groups. An outline of the material covered in the lecture is the following:

This course is aimed at students who are interested in differential geometry. Students are expected to have a certain familiarity with Riemannian geometry, ideally they have followed Differential Geometry I or a similar course. The course will be taught in English.